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Solar Shines Bright in the Energy Crisis

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Solar and Africa's Energy Future

In the long term, it will play a huge role. It should be possible for many, many countries to leak for over ever going through the coal and gas plant stage and go straight to fairly distributed energy networks that are powered largely on renewables with battery backup. In the short term, things are not quite so bright. A lot of large projects being built in Africa had power signed in 2020 and before. And those were at prices assuming that there wouldn't be inflation,. certainly not predicting the amount of inflation we've had.

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